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The Baby Blake was a British
cyclecar A cyclecar was a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive motorized car manufactured in Europe and the United States between 1910 and the early 1920s. The purpose of cyclecars was to fill a gap in the market between the motorcycle and the c ...
manufactured by E.G. Blake in
Croydon, Surrey Croydon is a large town in South London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London; it is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensive ...
in 1922. It was unusual in being powered by two separate stroke
engine An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy. Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power ge ...
s driving friction discs. A third disc running between these and moveable backwards and forwards gave an infinitely variable drive to the rear
axle An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotation, rotating wheel and axle, wheel or gear. On wheeled vehicles, the axle may be fixed to the wheels, rotating with them, or fixed to the vehicle, with the wheels rotating around the axle. In ...
. They were advertised at £150 but few were sold.


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Vintage vehicles Cyclecars Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1922 Defunct companies based in Surrey {{Vintage-auto-stub